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Guardian: Wikipedia approaches its limits

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Guardian: Wikipedia approaches its limits

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Guardian: Wikipedia approaches its limits

did someone fix the newsfeed bot?

I fixed and trimmed the link (in my surviving role as emergency media forums thread mover) because these links appear unrefined and sprawl over the page, making the thread difficult to read.

The "struggle" between "inclusionists" and "deletionists" is irrelevant to the more serious struggle between all the pitched camps of ideologues in Wikipedia. Both "inclusionist" and "deletionist" are reasonable philosophical attitudes that one can take toward the activity of editing an encyclopedia. However, the ideologues are neither, because they're in favor of including content that favors their personal agendas, and in favor of deleting content that opposes that agenda.

Sadly, the author of this article fails to recognize that Wikipedia's use as a ideological battleground is the perhaps the single largest problem Wikipedia faces, nor does he recognize that the protected status that the elite enjoy tends to further this problem as many of the elites are actively engaged in ideologically-driven editing. And it's the infighting between these groups that is creating the friction and the exclusiveness, not the dispute over inclusionism and deletionism.

Indeed. The "inclusionist vs deletionist" debate is one long yawn, and doesn't say much about WP. Occasionally it can shed some light, during BLP issues for example, but otherwise it's an inevitable and wholly predictable offshoot of creating a reference work.